The Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism, 1790-1837 /
"Analyzing Romantic conservative critiques of modernity found in literature, philosophy, natural history, and agricultural periodicals, this book finds a common theme in the 'intergenerational imagination.' The conservative intergenerational imagination cultivates a counter-narrative...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
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Table of Contents:
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- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- PART I: IMAGINATION
- Introduction: Conservatism and the Intergenerational Imagination
- 1. Intergenerational Imagination in Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
- 2. 'Their graves are green': Conservation in William Wordsworth's Epitaphic Ballads
- PART II: HABITATION
- 3. The Politics of the Miniature in Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds
- 4. Conservation or Catastrophe: Reflexive Regionalism in Maria Edgeworth's Irish Tales
- 5. Subsistence as Resistance: William Cobbett's Food Politics
- 6. Anthropomorphism and the Critique of Liberal Rights in John Clare's Enclosure Elegies
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.